Howlett, 30, was quizzed by police following the alleged attack — said to have taken place after a Eurovision results party in Bath, where he is MP.

The bash for around 30 people was held in a private residence at one of the city’s poshest addresses.

Revellers downed bottles of wine and home-made punch before heading out to a club.

He pushed a man up against the wall and stuck his hands down his trousers

A source told The Sun: “Ben turned up with a couple of bottles of red and got quite drunk. At one point he was running around the house and in and out of the bathrooms, laughing and giggling.

“He was having a good time.”

Most of the group went on to the Sub 13 cocktail bar, where gay christian Howlett shared a ­bottle of champagne with a friend, the source said.

MP was on a 'club crawl' as he hopped from one venue to another 'drunk'

He went to the Sub 13 cocktail bar in Bath with the group he was partying with

At around midnight they moved on to the Common Room club, where the alleged assault reportedly happened last May.

A source said: “Ben was very drunk by that point. He pushed a man up against the wall and stuck his hands down his trousers into his pants and tried to kiss him. He then grabbed his boyfriend’s crotch.

They were shocked at his behaviour and left the club.”

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